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OBJECTIVE: To provide an overview of telehealth and explore the roles that the registered nurse can play in the context of a telehealth setting. DATA SOURCES: Review of articles via PubMed and CIANHL from 2009 to present and relevant telehealth websites. CONCLUSION: The advancement of technology, the need to improve access to health care, and the changing expectations of consumers to have access to information has helped to expand telehealth as an innovative care delivery model and has created new opportunities for telehealth nursing care. The use of telehealth in the oncology setting continues to evolve and provide nurses the opportunity for new and potentially expanded roles. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE: Registered oncology nurses need to understand the various methods used to deliver care via a telehealth environment and how establish and work in this new environment to assure that they are practicing safely and within the full scope of their license.
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Oncology Nursing/standards , Telemedicine/organization & administration , Triage/methods , Humans , Medical Oncology/organization & administration , Nurse's RoleABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To explore the role and outcomes using hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) as a treatment option with aggressive, follicular, mantle, T-cell, and HIV related non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). DATA SOURCES: Research and review articles and textbooks. CONCLUSION: High-dose chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy followed by HCT has been used to overcome resistance to standard-dose therapy and has been explored over the past 40 years and has shown long-term survival of approximately 10% to 50% in patients with relapsed or refractory lymphoma. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE: Nursing plays a significant role in the assessment and management of patients throughout the course of HCT.
